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Twenty years ago, I stood in a boardroom at Merck and made what seemed like a crazy pitch: sequence most of the human genome before the Human Genome Project finished, then publish everything immediately for free. My management thought I was nuts. But we did it. The Merck Gene Index characterized over 85% of expressed human genes and became the framework for the first human genome assembly. And we gave it all away because we understood something fundamental: who controls the d

Introduction: The Data Residency Illusion For years, the conventional wisdom for securing Canadian data has been simple: store it on servers physically located in Canada. With over 80% of Canadian businesses using foreign-owned providers and 60% of our cloud market controlled by just five American companies, this idea of “data residency” has been the cornerstone of compliance, giving us a sense of security — a belief that our digital information is safely wrapped in the flag.